Recently I came into a client who had a Windows XP machine that contained a nasty little virus that rendered the machine nearly unusable. When the machine would boot the CPU was pegging out at 100%, causing the GUI to be nearly unresponsive.
I attempted to run AVG, Avast, Malwarebytes – but all for naught. The [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Mar 9th, 2010
- Comments: 24
Scan a Windows drive for viruses using Linux
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Mar 7th, 2010
- Comments: None
Manage your projects with KPlato
KPlato is one of those tools that could easily get overlooked – but certainly shouldn’t. KPlato is project management tool that offers more features that many similar tools costing significantly more money (since KPlato is free – that’s fairly easy to figure out). KPlato was created with the intention of managing moderate to large projects [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Mar 6th, 2010
- Comments: 6
Post Twitter and Facebook status from the GNOME panel
One of the nice, but somewhat hidden, features of the upcoming Ubuntu 10.4 release is that you can access chatting, tweeting, and social network all from a simple panel applet. Now I will warn you, this feature is not production-worthy. In other words, it will crash on you. But to see what is in store [...]
Disk Catalog Software Virtual Volumes View
Virtual Volumes View (VVV) is a free disk catalog software for the Linux, Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It can not only catalog disks like CDs or DVDs but also files and folders in virtual volumes making them available for offline viewing on the local computer system and over a computer network.
Virtual Volumes [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Mar 5th, 2010
- Comments: 3
Map your mind with VYM (View Your Mind)
How many ways can you organize your life? You can use spreadsheets, documents, images, flow charts or (if you’re organization is more organic in nature) a mind mapping software. Tools like this are very special tools that allow the user to create visual puzzles of a sort of train of thought organization. Mind maps are [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Mar 4th, 2010
- Comments: None
How to configure Compiz in Elive
For those of you who are lucky enough to have the Elive distribution running on your desktop you might have noticed there is no CCSM (Compiz Config Settings Manager). At least not that you can find. You can’t run the command ccsm and you can’t install the application ccsm. At one point Elive had a [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Mar 3rd, 2010
- Comments: 2
Creating a VPN tunnel between Ubuntu and Sonicwall
Yesterday I walked you through the process of connecting to a Microsoft PPTP VPN (see my article “Connecting to a Microsoft VPN with Linux“). That article used a simple GUI tool to allow you to create your VPN tunnel. Unfortunately there is no magic support you can add to the Network Manager Applet to add [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Mar 2nd, 2010
- Comments: 4
Connecting to a Microsoft VPN with Linux
One of the Achilles heels of the Linux operating system is connecting to a VPN. Due to it’s natural ability to network, one would think connecting to a VPN would be a simple task. In some cases it is. In some cases it certainly is not. This is completely dependent upon the type of VPN [...]
